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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, X: a ride through Kansas (search)
town in Kansas is threatened with the name of Quindaro, which means a Bundle of Sticks, after the Indian wife of the projector. This I deprecate and suggest Quincy—after old Josiah, as a substitute. Also I have urged your name of Sumner. The trouble of these family names is that by and by there must be Christian names to distinguish them, there will be so many. Fancy a town of South-Wendell Phillips or Wm. Lloyd-Garrison-4-corners, or Rev. Gen. Thos. Wentworth Higginson Centre! On September 24, Mr. Higginson wrote home from Topeka:— I got here yesterday afternoon after six days ride and walk (chiefly the former) across the prairies of Kansas. A few of the fort teams came with me, the rest of the train will be in to-day and to-morrow. . . . We camped out five nights which I enjoyed on the whole, though only in the last night did we have wood enough for the Maine style of tent, open toward the fire. Imagine me also patrolling as one of the guard for an hour every night,
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
r less picturesque and companionable than our New England mountains. It was impossible not to be drawn into politics and, in the fall of 1888, Colonel Higginson was nominated as Representative to Congress by the Democrats of the Fifth Congressional District. The question whether to accept this nomination required much deliberation. He wrote in his diary September 23:— Thinking all day about Congressional proposal and decided to decline it . . . . Wrote accordingly in evening. Sept. 24. Felt so dissatisfied and troubled at my decision that I decided to revoke it . . . and substituted another letter. I hope I have at last done right, but it is a risk. I hope some one else will be nominated. Colonel Higginson was required to do more or less stump-speaking in this campaign and wrote:— Nov. 6. Election Day . . . . Globe reporter surprised to find me quietly reading and said that all the other candidates were in rooms at hotels with newspapers, telegraphers, and tab